My XO-1 Bites the Dust

Ok, so I've been having touchpad problems since I got it, but a mouse workaround fixes that.

Then the camera not working, ok, I don't show record, the crowd pleaser, use Speak and the microphone app measure? instead...

But then the screen stops working (weird behavior, was blank restarting fixed, now dark line/bars and looks like shorting out, maybe a smell too?), then it's toast...

And the G1G1 program is not running, I'm probably a little light on the tech for doing an alpha (though would want it, run school server software, and show to LUG members, across users groups like Perl Mongers, mini demos, etc... and beta boards of Fat XO-1.5 are a ways away...

SO IT SEVERELY LIMITS WHAT ONE CAN DO WHEN YOU CAN'T GET THE HARDWARE,
LIKE ANY OTHER MACHINE... And wastes my years of experience with the project
(albeit mostly user, and OLPCLearningClub user group)...

I fleshed out the instructions, and found a few bugs...

Anybody have luck playing videos

All the players I have tried give me the "X11 error: Bad Alloc (insufficient resources for operation)" using the xv driver. I can use x11, as in mplayer -vo x11, but then the videos are postage stamp size. This used to work with the original XO OLPC software. Unfortunately, I found after I upgraded my son's XO I could not find compatible RPM's. So I decided to try Fedora 11 on the XO. Still videos are the biggest problem.

Everything I've found with google indicates this is a problem with the geode driver. I filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540056 but unless someone finds the right place to file this upstream, there probably won't be a resolution anytime soon.